Spurs have made significantly more money than Arsenal in Europe this season and the press are letting us know about it, but it won’t be nearly enough to make up for the last 20 years.

For the first time since it re-branded to the UEFA Champions League in 1992, Spurs qualified for the competition, and Arsenal didn’t and Football.london have highlighted the major financial differences playing in the two competitions.

The Gunners have won four, drawn one and lost one of their Europa League group stage matches, securing a place in the knockout rounds of the competition. With €2.6m for reaching the group stage, €360,000 for a win and €120,000 for a draw, €500,000 for reaching the knockout rounds and a bonus for topping the group, Arsenal have earned €5,260,000 so far.

Meanwhile Spurs, who won just one more game than the Gunners, have reportedly earned €26.7m so far.

Both clubs have market pool payments to come, but that’s already a difference in earnings of over €20m between the two clubs.

Arsenal can’t even earn that by winning the competition, as the most you can win is €15.71m.

But before we panic about how rich Spurs are going to be in comparison to the Gunners, let’s consider this in context.

In the last 20 seasons (1998-99 to 2017/18), Arsenal have qualified for the Champions League 19 times, and the Europa League once.

Tottenham, on the other hand, have qualified for the UEFA Cup/Europa League nine times, and the Champions League three. That means they’ve failed to make it into Europe at all on eight occasions.

Overall, the Gunners will end up worse off this year. But they’ve earned more than Spurs on every single other occasion except 2010/11, when Tottenham made it one round further. in the Champions League.

If Spurs make €50m more than the Gunners this year (very possible, considering Arsenal earned €66.2m last season), that just means Arsenal have been making similar amounts in the previous 19 seasons.

Hardly seems much to be concerned about, does it?